Road map¶

• Autoloader and pluginsync

  • Sync Puppet “features” (#5454)
  • Face applications delivered via pluginsync and as modules should work (#7316)
  • Plugins only loaded once (#3741, #8341)

• Environments

  • Plugins accessible from the master (#4409)

• Eliminate vendored (but mostly unused) event-loop library (#4862)

• Placeholder for “MD5 issue” (scoping)

• Placeholder for keylength default value change (#6663)

• Make the master authoritative over client environments

  • ENC environment should override any client specified environment (#3910)

• Data and Code separation

  • Data/Model separation with Hiera (#11608)

• Static Compiler (#6873)

  • Make the static compiler default (#12158)

• Make autoloader more opinionated with a clearer mental model

  • autoloader (puppet code)
    • Enforce naming conventions for autoloading manifests (#5041, #5043, #5044)
    • create_resource doesn’t interact with autoloader well (#11912)

• Structured fact data

  • Facter should support structured data for third party facts (boolean, array, hash) (#4561)
  • Puppet support for structured third party fact data

• Graph processing improvements

  • preserve containment relationships when processing graph on the client
  • produce better dot output of the client graphs

• Modules

  • Load “library” plugins that are used by multiple puppet functions and delivered via pluginsync (#4248)

• Environments

  • Masters cannot reliably distinguish between multiple versions of a type/function/plugin used in different environments (#12173)